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Re: Study Finds Elementary Students Like New Healthier Lunches

Originally Posted by Dittohead not!

And I don't think any schools have actually banned kids bringing lunches, not to my knowledge anyway. At our school, the principal did put her foot down about kids bring a huge bag of hot Cheetos and nothing else for their lunch. Talk about parent's responsibility, or lack thereof, that was a prime example.

There has been one school, somewhere in Chicago, but they were banned before the new guidelines on nutrition ever came out. The principle even says it was done over 6 years ago because of junk food being brought on field trips. Most people do not agree with this. It is one thing to limit what sorts of food a kid might bring to school, another to ban all lunches from home.

Another place where lunches from home have been banned is in preschools/head start programs. However, there have been no actual federal guideline that says they have to be banned provided, despite some schools, districts, or even states thinking otherwise. And some of them are being banned for other reasons besides base nutrition, among those being sanitation, potential allergies, no place to store them, and school liability issues. I imagine there are a lot of reasons that schools for preschool age children would not want lunches brought in. In fact, the school my son went to last year for speech had preschool classes that only lasted 3-4 hours, with two different sessions each day (one morning, one afternoon). The students only got snacks provided by the school in their classrooms.

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Re: Study Finds Elementary Students Like New Healthier Lunches

Originally Posted by ObamacareFail

Getting caught in a photo-op eating unhealthy food does not help her lame cause,

You are wrong.Eating short ribs once in a while does not make her a hypocrite.Nor does it make her wrong that kids should eat healthy food. So what if someone took a picture of her eating short ribs. If she was eating unhealthy food every day then she would be a hypocrite. Going around nitpicking over her eating short ribs and going Moochelle like a immature elementary school kid only makes you look like a partisan hack.

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear"

Re: Study Finds Elementary Students Like New Healthier Lunches

Originally Posted by Dittohead not!

Baloney. If some conservative mogul were to suggest it, you'd love the idea.

Considering the Moochelle comment from him I think you are right.

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear"

Re: Study Finds Elementary Students Like New Healthier Lunches

Originally Posted by jamesrage

You are wrong.Eating short ribs once in a while does not make her a hypocrite.Nor does it make her wrong that kids should eat healthy food. So what if someone took a picture of her eating short ribs. If she was eating unhealthy food every day then she would be a hypocrite.

However, she is seen eating unhealthy food fairly often.

Going around nitpicking over her eating short ribs and going Moochelle like a immature elementary school kid only makes you look like a partisan hack.

Partisan hack for which party? I am an independent. I just do not like nanny state government. I don't think the feds should have any influence on school lunches.

Re: Study Finds Elementary Students Like New Healthier Lunches

Of course you are, that is why you use the term Moochelle multiple times in this thread.

I just do not like nanny state government. I don't think the feds should have any influence on school lunches.

You do realize the government is the one ordering the school lunches?

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear"

Re: Study Finds Elementary Students Like New Healthier Lunches

Originally Posted by jamesrage

Apparently not all kids are spoiled brats whose parents let them eat what ever they want and many other kids do like healthier food.

Study Finds Elementary Students Like New Healthier Lunches - WSJ
When the federal government implemented new school-meal regulations in 2012, a majority of elementary-school students complained about the healthier lunches, but by the end of the school year most found the food agreeable, according to survey results released Monday.
The peer-reviewed study comes amid concerns that the regulations led schools to throw away more uneaten food and prompted some students to drop out of meal programs.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago surveyed administrators at more than 500 primary schools about student reaction to the new meals in the 2012-2013 school year. They found that 70% agreed or strongly agreed that students, by the end of the school year, generally liked the new lunches, which feature more whole grains, vegetables and fruits, and lower fat levels.

Those kids are being put in an environment were they feel its better. its not better, it sucked, and it used to be better in the past. We actually got fed.